A woman cowers while an old woman stands above her. A huge cat looms in the background.

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   curious ordinary (curiousordinary@mas.to)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2022 17:48:58 JST curious ordinary

   In #JapaneseFolklore there is a tale known as the Cat Witch of Okabe. It was said that an evil bakeneko (a #yokai cat) haunted the temple grounds in the town of Okabe. She disguised herself as a kind old woman with the aim of luring young girls to her lair to kill & eat them. Because she was so evil, her corpse turned into stone when she died.
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   ?1. 'Okabe: The Story of the Cat Stone' - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1846
   2. 'The Cat Witch of Okabe, with actors' - Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1850